The rise or fall of humanity

[Vasti]

Seeing as this year the world would end....uhu, not buying it, it made me wonder about humanity's fate.
So I wonder what you think will happen to humanity.
I will post a poll with some options but feel free to state your own possibility in the replies.

Remember this is about what will EVENTUALLY happen...so in thousands, millions, or even billions of years from now, whichever YOU think is likely.

1-We go extinct due to an unavoidable event (crashed meteor)
2-We kill ourselves in a nuclear war leaving the planet uninhabitable for humans (long live cockroaches)
3-We get killed by a hostile alien race
4-Humanity evolves into a new species (or through alien inter-breeding)
5-Some disease prevents people from giving birth and we die out
6-We upload our minds into a computer and live inside robotic surrogate bodies, leaving no trace of our biological form
7-Some apocalyptic religious event
8-We live until the universe decides to stop expanding and shrink again. Destroying everything before the big bang happens all over agains
9-Humanity cannot find a replacement for earth before our resources run out
10-Humanity will never die out and eventually reach godlike status

Just curious as to what you think is likely the fate of humanity. Feel free to discuss/defend your stance in the comments.

EDIT: To clarify, this is about humans as in our biological selves. When does the homo sapien die out. If we become some new species or live on through machinery, then we are no longer humans in the sense that we are today.

[Reeve]

I'm thinking #9 for the fall of humanity. As for the rise, I'm gonna go with it's already happened.

[vizzle]

I don't know if we can still be considered humanity by then, but our creations will exist for as long as the universe lets us and doesn't suck us in black holes. I think even if your #6 occurs, that would still be considered our creations, but now that's debating a whole different topic of discussion (whether or not we can still be considered humanity from surrogate bodies).

[Razorice]

Hmm. I think #1,#2 and #9 are the most probable.

[DeltrusDisc]

I'm thinking #9 for the fall of humanity. As for the rise, I'm gonna go with it's already happened.

I must agree about option 9, frankly, it seems like we can't find anywhere close (......) that is inhabitable and would be big enough if we had to consider abandoning Earth.

[Deleted]

I'd say 2 or 9

[lavafoxx]

Personally I like to hope that humanity will someday be extinct (sooner rather then later) but I'm a realist, so humanity will probably keep spreading its filth around the universe.

[Collie]

Of all the listed possibilities, I tend to lean towards #9 as being the most plausible with #2 not being far behind it.

[Razorice]

Personally I like to hope that humanity will someday be extinct (sooner rather then later) but I'm a realist, so humanity will probably keep spreading its filth around the universe.

That's kinda harsh. lol
Maybe one day (0,0000001% chance) we will realise that we can do so much better?

[Dakia]

I think that an extinction event would likely be the case, but I voted for #9.

I just don't understand why more isn't being done to get off of this rock. For all of its vast resources, those resources are still finite in nature.

[Razorice]

I think that an extinction event would likely be the case, but I voted for #9.

I just don't understand why more isn't being done to get off of this rock. For all of its vast resources, those resources are still finite in nature.

This is why I'm waiting for technology to upload myself to Minecraft!

[Vasti]

This is why I'm waiting for technology to upload myself to Minecraft!

I better get started on creating the perfect world then, before that tech arrives!

So far no one has come up with the 11th alternative...were my possibilities that thorough?
I'd have figured I missed a few possibilities.

[Catta]

I think that an extinction event would likely be the case, but I voted for #9.

I just don't understand why more isn't being done to get off of this rock. For all of its vast resources, those resources are still finite in nature.

If we ever got off this rock billions would still be left to die unless we come up with Mass Effect technology

[slipn]

I foresee us destroying the earth and seeing as we aren't really doing much with space programs as of late, we won't have anywhere to go.

[Drekker17]

I said the last one, but 1 & 9 are the ones I think will most likely prevent us from getting to that place. We need to first expand off this rock (very likely), then we need to avoid the unavoidable event of our star dying, so we'll need tech to travel between solar systems (currently impossible, but I trust we'll find a way)...once we do that we can expand enough to avoid other disasters from wiping us out. I think all the other events are very unlikely to happen.

[Deleted]

Personally I like to hope that humanity will someday be extinct (sooner rather then later) but I'm a realist, so humanity will probably keep spreading its filth around the universe.

lol.

On topic 1, 2 and 9 seems most likely.

[Dakia]

If we ever got off this rock billions would still be left to die unless we come up with Mass Effect technology

True, but the human race would continue and expand in to the galaxy.

[zerocarbs]

I voted that we will become Gods for the lulz.

[Nnyco]

i voted 9, even tho 7 will may happen aswell in some kind of "holy" war where we all kill our self due some retarded idea of whats the real god

[Deleted]

We will never go extinct by our own hand, unless we commit mass suicide or something. But, we will go extinct due to an unavoidable cause.


"Humanity cannot find a replacement for earth before our resources run out" can be considered an unavoidable cause. Our resources do not even have the potential to let us explore space even if they would be infinite. Space was never meant to be explored. It's too big, dangerous and complex for that. Stop dreaming.

---------- Post added 2012-07-26 at 07:24 PM ----------

Personally I like to hope that humanity will someday be extinct (sooner rather then later) but I'm a realist, so humanity will probably keep spreading its filth around the universe.

Impossible. Read what I said. Our end will more than likely be caused by the aging/death of the sun. Think about how old is the universe. Assuming aliens exist, do you see them here or anywhere in the observable universe? They had so much time to reach and expand, but they are nowhere to be seen. Nope, they probably ended as we will.

Thinking we will never die out? You don't have to be stupid, you have to be outright delusional. Sheperd, the Reapers, the Citadel, and the turians are not a prophecy.